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INI ‘Soaring 60s’ End The United States embarked upon what had been labeled the “Soaring Sixties” with a sense of euphoria - “A feeling of g especially an exaggerated one having no basis in truth or reality" How precisely the definition fit became apparent as national drooped Weloftedmen to the Moon and wondered what had been accomplished Only the giant leap to the Moon seemed to go right or to unify the nation Mostly the wrong things soared — the war in Vietnam the cost of living crime and violence population pollution and taxes John F Kennedy's challenge as he became President — "Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country" — was quickly forgotten and its emphasis reversed as the Macks the underprivileged and some of the demanded more and privileged including Congress more Unsure in the Bay of Pigs debacle but certain in the Cbban missfle crisis Kennedy imbued people with his optimism He personified a word the derade made pupular — charisma It was no shield against an assassin’s bullet The nation was shocked into awareness of its ills like a man learning his recurrent pain is dangerous possibly incurable President Lyndon B Johnson took charge and set out to buy victory in Vietnam with more men and more money He sought to abolish poverty at the same time as if by fiat though none knew better than he St John’s words: "The poor always ye have with well-bein- TPS NOTHING NEW for some psychics to announce the end of the world is at hand They’ve done it off and on for at least 1914 ce now A dozen years prophesien dating back to the Bid new book "Who’s Who in Church described in ere a century History” by William P Barker and published by Fleming H Raven The earliest one noted by Barker was Montanus who in the year 158 AD “shrilled that theendof the world was at hand He found ready eon for his startling proclamations in Asia Minor and Ms movement swelled to enormous rise” Others followed at intervals through the centuries and often lost Cue when they set an exact date and nothing happened Instead of predicting the end of the world James Usriier did the opposite in the 17tfa Century and recokned backward announcing tint the world had been created in the year 4004 1LC baaing his calculations on his study of tin Dible Since he was a Middy respected and prominent Irish AngUcu Archbishop of Ireland his dates were almost universally accepted until the ndd-19tcentury when scientific Investigations indicated otherwise h v THE BOOK GIVES BRIEF dutches of some picturesque Christian personalities who have had some effort on the chunk though not all were convenfional or orthodox Along with Joan of Arc guided by spirit voices to save France French boy Beneut Barker includes the now obscure who responded to visions and voices directing Mm to build a bridge in 1777 when it was believed to be a great act of piety to erect one The youngster managed to mobilize a crew of workmen and to successfully supervise them in planning engineering and constructing a bridge over the Rhone River st Avignoa you” “Credibility gap” entered the language and the President having lost die confidence of the people retired his high hopes blighted An atheist succeeded to rule out floundered as if always trusted or in its own strong hands that had hewn an empire out of the wilderness and it mourned for the vanishing wilderness The people endured torments of conscience for old wrongs that could not be righted Remedies which qnce seemed easy to obtain for a price became elusive Transplanted hearts gave out the war blazed on Riots in the streets campus rebellions peace demonstrations mini-skir- ts and ls LSD and pot crime and pornography tarnished “The Great Society” Some descendants of the wronged not content with just demands for justice which most people supported cheapened their cause of cries for cash n reparations which only a sentimental or few could encourage Finally the nation in its distress over die terrible erosion of war massive inflation and growing terror in ttie streets turned to the man it had narrowly rejected in 1960 Richard M Nixon as the best hope for a new policy of getting out of Vietnam and of restoring fiscal responsibility And they wanted every filing done now The Sixties which had begun with complacence were ending with humility and rising anger and frustration and questions that seemed almost unanswerable Tired of slogans there was no alliterative label to title the Severities as safe secure serene or sane There was a chastened realization that it is up to a united intelligent and industrious people to hold safe what had been built by forefathers who exercises these qualities and did not look to government or their neighbors for handouts' History seemed to overwhelm us all like a river in flood but we were beginning to be aware of and to define our problems conscious for once of the limitations that chasten nations as well as men History also reminded us that the Sixties of a hundred years ago brought to a young nation its sternest testing A great Civil War drained the country and the painful ordeal of Reconstruction began with hatred and exhaustion fear and frustration far greater than we now must strive to overcome if we are to progress toward the dream of peace on earth Now in the balance of terror the Bomb has made must Americans prove their worthiness to survive to endure the trials ahead and to address righteous grievances There is reason for hope no time for despair mini-mora- THE WEEK IN REVIEW Christmas T akes Headlines Christmas in Cache Valley was everything it rfxxild be — soft powdery snow whitened the groumb and rooftops just in time and there were no traffic accidents or other emergencies to mar the holiday as there hive been in other years ate Christmas was The day as busy for merchants as the few days preceding tin big day as exchangee were made and customers were flocking to tone to take advantage of eome major ealee guilt-ridde- self-dou- bt Campus Unsungs: Students In Massive Help to Others By RAY CKOMLEY NEA Washington Correspondent We aU know when we stop to think about it that most studeLls are hot engaged daily in campus violence and ' that very few are members of those well-pub- li groups which like their predecessors in Nazi Germany close laboratories or bar their campuses to speakers with whom they disagree Occasionally we learn (through reports compiled of the hundreds of thousands of students y work of helping other quietly going about the no television coverage people—with little This reporter recently has been sent details about this kind of activity at one campus— Stanford University— as compiled by a student Sue Cribari from v day-to-da- Fresno What this young woman has dug up is this: h of the Stanford Law School student signed up with the Stanford Legal Aid Society They help men and women in distress who cant afford to hire lawyer Representatives work with outside legal aid groups at Redwood City and East Palo Alto under supervision of an attorney from the law school through a Stanford grant 11e Volunteer Services Center at Stanford is a clearing house for a sizable amount of such volunteering Through the center students are steered to projects in which they help foreign students learn English entertain blind Vietnam war veterans and hospital pati?Pts help minority youngsters get temporary jobs check into reports of housing discrimination study suicide prevention teach mentally retarded children to swim or join a tutoring One-fourt- program In the last year the center has placed more than 800 students in activities helping their neighbors But this is only a fraction of the student contribution Many young people work directly through their own organizations ANOTHER HERO LITTLE known today was TeWnachm e 5th century monk described by Barker as follows: “Sensitive Syria monk who ended the grisly sport of forcing combatants to fight to the death In the Roman arenas Teiemacbna leaped into the ring in Rome’s Colosseum one day to register his protori and stop the carnage His act infiiriated the sports fans who poured out of the stands to Mil him Tdemachus’ sacrifice however persuaded Emperor Honorlus to do away with gladiatorial combats” Jayceea announced that there were eome excellent entries in this year’s home lighting contest Named winners were Clifford A Longman B5Elth No If Dunford Weston 716 8 th E and Owen Jenson 151 So 7th W Beaver Mountain 8U Area opened Saturday to the delight of local ski enthusiasts The resort will be open from 10 un until 4:20 pm throughout the holidays Igm “Swede” Larson was appointed assistant to the dean of students following action of the Utah State University’s institutional council executive committee this week R seems a long way off but Ckche County Commissioners have set the official date for the 1670 Cache County Fair and Rodeo In Login City Commission meeting Tuesday an auditing report was presented by the city’s newly appointed firm from Ogden M E (BID) Johnson representing the firm gave each commissioner a comprehensive report and laid down respon-sibiiof the board of commissioners for the fiscal year m Arab dissension and in unusually heavy air attack by Israel gave a new tilt this week to the precarious balance of the “hostile peaa” in the Middle EL The latest UB proposal for a solution suggesting the return of territory occupW by Israel in 1967 in exchange for Arab gnaranteea of peace was dismissed as by Moscow unlikely to be “constructive” The plan had previously been assailed by Israel and the Arabs An Arab strategy conference in Rabat Morocco collapsed when Egyptian President Ga-mAbdel Nasser walked out because Saudi Arabia and Kuwait would not contribute as much as he thought they ahould for the mobilization of Arab armies A ceremonial dosing session was boycotted by Syria Iraq and Southern Yemen Arab political sources in Beirut Lebanon said leaders of Egypt Syria Jordan and Iraq will meet In Cairo next month to consider further action On Christmas Day Israeli warplanes pounded Egyptian porittas doing the Sues Canal for 6 to hours in the longest continuous air strike Israel had ever launched against an Arab country An Imatt army spokesman aald targets receiving spedal attention included antiaircraft missile sites being rebuilt by the Egyptians The sites had been blasted by Israeli planes more than a month ago Around the world: al oil-ri- ch SAIGON— UR Wees Jn Vietnam resumed military 'aerations Friday at the conchuha of a Christmas truce ignoring the three-da- y fire proclaimed by the Communists The American command reported 111 enemy violations of the Allied truce PARIS— Fifty-eigwives sad N children of men missing or captured in Vietnam made a flying trip to the French capitd to ask North Vietnamese officials for information about their loved ones They got ur ht nothing except an assurance that the information they desire will be made available “gra- dually” WASHINGTON - Vice Pres- ident Spiro T Agnew took off tour of Southeast on a Asia carrying with him Presidential messages and moon-roc- k samples for leaders of the nations on his itinerary BERLIN— Ridelf Hen last of the major Nazis convicted of war crimes still remaining in confinement saw his wife end eon for the first time in 21 years Hess is the only inmate of Spandau prison in West Berlin NEWARK NJ-- UR one that has produced 70 indictments in the northern part of the state WASHINGTON The list Congress adjourned its first session in an atmosphere of eased differences with the drive against organized crime and political corruption in southern New Jersey like the you think of Appalachia or the ghettos of big cities Do you ever consider the poverty in our own area? I wonder if it surprises you to know there are ever 6500 people living below the poverty level set by Health Education Kid Welfare here in our own county? One reason it Is not so obvious to us is because tt to so scattered One or two families in a nef£durhood doesn't seem like any great problem to us But to (hose who must live In this situation tt is a very grave problem Sure they con purchase food stamps in order to get groceries at s discount Did you know that a family of seven have to purchase 1130 of stamps each month or lose this privilege? Who in poverty a1 produce 1130 at a ate If you’re in an extreme emotional state don’t get behind the wheel of a car If you have to get somewhere let someone rise drive -- William Asher professor of education and pry- eholbgy at Purdue Uni-varsity naming psychological stress as the major ' contributor to automobile deaths J HERE AND THERE— A cotqde of filings you may not know: Shakes almost literally walk on the ends of their ribs The ribs are attached to broed spedal scales on the underside of the body Through a forward and backward motion of the ribs there scales more the mike along the ground Baby kangaroos are only about an inch long at birth The color of the male bird has much to do with whether or not ho helps with brooding the eggs If he is Inconspicuously colored like the female he takes hia regular turn If be is brlQlintiy colored he stays away from the neat The only thing to negotiate in Paris is the amount reparations the US um pay the Vietnamese people-- Herm Albright relates some “words he’s eaten lately:” “Don’t worry deer Just watch me talk my way out ri fids Daniel Elliot a coordinator of thm Vietiiam Mora- torium Commutes ticket” “Sure we’ve got enough gas to make It to yoar mother1! house the puge is Just a little off” “Look I’m just going to play a quiet pme of cai Js with the boys and if 1 start losiig too much ITl quit” I wish I had copyrighted my speeches I would ‘be drawing immense royalties from Mr Nixon and especially Mr Agnew —Former Alabama Gov George C Wallace a And Richard Armour does some “popping off:” Popcorn eaters in a movie I don’t find so very groovy Not that I am bothered when candidate for 1988 ' It is e sad and unfortunate truth that except for adequate knowledge of reproductive processes physicians as a group are grievously ignorant and actually rather prudish in matters of sexuality —Dr James L McCary professor of psychology at the University of Houston My wife can speak with the press television or radio any time as long as she speaks SwahilL —Atty Gen John MitchelL If music be the food of love play on —Rudolf Bing general man- ager of the Metropolitan Opera to performers rehearsing after settlement of strikes that delayed the season for three months ‘You Have Some Poverty Near You’ Many of these able mothers living on welfare have tried taking employment to better their family situation only to find that tho Jobs available nav so little more than welfare they they can't afford to give up the medical assistance they had so they must return to the welfare rules Pierre Cauchon the “odious French prelate” who condemned) Joan of Are end handed her over to be burned wee later so loathed Mi death Pope CaUxtui IV had Mi body exhumed and that ifcimwmt into a sewer a Chech was the first Johan Amos Comenius (1592-167educator to apply picture hooka for auiB cBUren to use the eonvenattonal method of teaching language! to introduce ringing art politics geography science and crafts in children's echool curriculum He completely reorganized Sweden’s school system In 1642 He preetteted the world would end in 1672 QUOTES third-part- y time regulary each month? Another drawback to railing their standards is the em-- i ploymefli criteria in the valley Or are yon one of those who wore to keep up your family's stan- dards of living while yonr unguided children spend this time lowering the standard of morals? Think tt over neighbors and see K you are contributing to the betterment of this community Thank yoa I would like to see some response to this letter Sincerely Faye RoskeCy i a TIMELY president in are: The first account of the discovery of America wai written in 15M by Peter d’Anghiera an Italian cleric stationed at the Spanish (hurt at the time of Cohimhne’ voyages The legend that Lady Godlva in the lltfa century rode naked thrani the streets of Coventry to carry out an agreement to get her husband to lower toes has no factual basis and is not in keeping with the character of Leofric her husband Leofric was honorable and compassionate man who gave generously to religious orders with Communist nations LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: I bet when yoa think of poverty Who administration Final acts of the session included panage of a hill President Nixon is expected to use to expand trade Attor- ney Frederick B Lacey announced that federal prosecutors and investigators in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania have Joined forces in a Among other little known facta of interest Included in the Who’i - p out come in spin Kidi I don’t mind the popcorn smell Which I really stand quite well Nor the sound of popcorn crunching Paper rustling people munching Nor the floor of flotsam Jetsam— It’s that I at last must get some! A truck full of cotton collided with a truck loaded with chickens ' end it took two hours for the cottonpicking chicken phickers end the chickenpicking cotton pluckers to dean iq the mesa FEEDING ON EACH OTHER ENDIESSLX t |